Science: Pops

Between Christmas and New Year's, when university students are at home
playing, university scientists get together to talk shop, make an
informal but massive audit of a year's research. Last week scientific
meetings were popping all over  the big, democratic American
Association for the Advancement of Science in Columbus; organic chemists in
St. Louis, sociologists in Philadelphia, astronomers in Delaware, Ohio,
anthropologists in Chicago, geologists in Minneapolis,
paleontologists in Pittsburgh, archeologists in Ann Arbor. Highlights: